Nursing
Article: Staiger, D. O., Auerbach, D. I., & Buerhaus, P. I. (2012). Registered nurse labor supply and the recession. – Are we in a bubble? New England Journal of Medicine, published online ahead of print March 21, 2012. Big Idea:... Read More
According to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Big Tobacco spends $1 million per hour (PER HOUR!!) marketing their products. That’s $10 billion – billion, with a “B” – to get people, including 1.4 million kids, to try their first cigarette... Read More
I’ve long thought today’s cartoons were short on health care role models and some large animation company like Disney or Nickelodeon needed to shake things up a bit. Well, Disney has had a rough go at cracking into the health... Read More
Tomorrow is Certified Nurses Day, a day to celebrate all the nurses who have taken the extra step to ensure competency in their respective fields. This means time working in their nursing specialties, a lot of time studying, passing a... Read More
I have read quite a bit about nursing theorists lately…just because. I know, it’s rather weird, but I feel compelled to dig deeper into nursing’s professional roots. Hildegard Peplau, one of nursing’s foremost leaders, died 13 years ago this Saturday.... Read More
Happy Pi Day! (Yes, there is such a thing.) Today celebrates math and the wonder of the mathematical phenomenon of pi, which is a circle’s circumference (measurement around) divided by its diameter (measurement across). (Remember? Barely? Don’t worry; you’re not... Read More
UCSD Health System just released its eighth Nursing Research News You Can Use video, this time on caregivers of cancer patients. Don’t have time to read recent journal articles on the topic? No worries. You can watch them! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dUYNqGmKx0 Help... Read More
The Article: Westerfield, H. V., Stafford, A. B., Gabel-Speroni, K., Daniel, M. (2012). Patients’ perceptions of patient care providers with tattoos and/or body piercings. Journal of Nursing Administration, 42(3): 160-164. Big Idea: This study examines the computer survey results of... Read More
By now, most know Susan G. Komen for the Cure reversed its decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening services for low-income women. Planned Parenthood is once again at the epicenter of a Federal and State... Read More
March Madness has begun, and I’m not talking about basketball. March is the beginning, or what feels like the beginning, of “appreciation season.” We’ll appreciate and recognize just about every health professional over the next few months. Today begins National... Read More